How the Marshall Plan made Europe
It is 75 years since the US launched its ambitious aid scheme to rebuild postwar Europe and protect it from Soviet hostility. Is this the model…
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David Reynolds
David Reynold is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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The hot war in the east
Seventy years ago, on 25 June 1950, North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, starting the Korean War. The…
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The Dunkirk delusion: From our finest hour to the coronavirus crisis
The national saga of 1940 was remarkable and truly historic. Eighty years on, the UK is again in the…
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Inside the Trump nursery
The 45th president of the US acts like a toddler – and his aides treat him like one too.
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Between toughness and talking: 75 years since Yalta
At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, as the Red Army was taking control of eastern Europe, Churchill, Roosevelt…
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A union built on blood
The first of a new series on the constitutional moment and the future of the United Kingdom.
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A tale of two cities
Thirty years ago this month the Berlin Wall came down and with it a stand-off between East and West that…
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Communism the Chinese way
The People’s Republic of China turns 70 this month. To reach this milestone it faced down opponents at home…
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Nato in the age of Putin and Trump
The organisation, which was originally meant to last ten years, celebrates its 70th anniversary this month. Can it survive in the…
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